Part 1 Group Paragraph
I believe that these three interviews as a whole paint a vivid picture of the Great Depression. At a young age, Arthur Goodlett was forced out of school to help earn money for his family. Goodlett was forced to leave the town he was born in and was relocated to Century, Alabama. In Century, Arthur Goodlett heard of a part of Alabama booming with good quality jobs. This place was called Omaha, Alabama. Omaha was searching for Negroes willing to work in the industry. Arthur Goodlett got good pay working at a packing company there. In the end, the move to Omaha paid off, Arthur Goodlett owns a nice home, has a very good job, and has an educated son. Goodlett was one of very few that was lucky enough to be succesful during the Great Depression. In the Great Depression, poverty left people without food, homes, or hope. Goodlett was one of lucky to end up successful after this hard time.Money lost much of its worth during the Great Depression, and the interview of George Dodge is a good example of this. Dodge was a Yankee who lost his wife, so he was living all alone with his dog. His way of getting money was by taking any odd job when he had the chance too. Even though he was a mason and carpenter, times were so tough and money had lost so much of its value, that he had to take any random jobs whenever he could, so that he could get the money.Also, in the interview of Sallie Smith, She would have to work on her farm in Burksville, Alabama, everyday to get her crops good and the she would have drive to the market and sell them. She would do this everyday just to make a living and she barely got by because she had to pay $1.50 to drive her car to Montgomery and back and then an extra fifty cents for another person, which is hard for her to pay because a colored person drives it too, so she would have to pay more often. In the end she started making more money but she still barely got by. I read the interview of Jacob stein. Jacob Stein was accused of changing the ballots of the current election. The man running for mayor, promised people that he would have more jobs for people and fix the depression. During the election, a man with a pile of envelopes walked up to Jacob Stein and handed them to him. After, a cop pulled up and arrested Stein for tampering with the ballots.
Part 3 A. Group Essay
In every interview, people described how during the Great Depression there was little to complain about of you had a job and a little money. They were grateful for very little because they knew that someone else in America was suffering much worse. Both men and woman and colored and whites had a tough time getting jobs.
Many people hiring workers did not want to give the jobs to colored people. One woman, Mrs. Marie Haggerty, said that in that period of time, jobs were hard to get. Whites were very nervous to hire colored people to work in their homes because they thought colored people were dishonest and would steal from them. Haggerty said, " You got hired by your looks and even if you looked honest, they would test you out." Marie Haggerty had extra trouble too since she was a women. A butcher named Jim Cole didn't mind his job because he made his money, but he did want to work somewhere else, but he wasn't allowed to because he was black.
Many women didn't want to do the jobs that men did and wanted to remain housewives, but when times worsened they were forced to get jobs to support there families. Alice Caudle began at a very young age working in the mills. She started at the bottom of the business and gradually worked up. This particular job was very popular with women since it wasn't as laborous as many other jobs. Still some women were forced to do some of the 'dirty' jobs, such as preparing a hog. After waiting several hours for her husband to come home, Elizabeth E. Miller began to prepare a hog left dressed outside. When her husband arrived home he was found dumb struck at the strength his wife had. This interview showed that when times got hard the women were forced to step into where the men woud usually be. But, there was one housewife named Mrs. Mayme Reese, who had no job,but loved getting together with other women and quilting together, and then they would enter their own quilts in the fairs to see who'd win. She may have not had a real job but she loved that job.
Men still had some of the hardest jobs and some that they were very ashamed of. As times got worse, Bernice was forced to enter the business of rent party hostess. He used to live in Bermuda where this business was known as a disgrace. This shows that the people of this era were very desperate. Two workers, Chris Thorsten and Garavelli didn't get "easy" jobs like Bernice. They were iron workers and stone cutters. Thorsten said, "You ain't an Iron Worker unless you get killed... Men hurt on all jobs.". He was once crushed between a crane and broke his collar bone, all of his ribs, and three vertebrae, so he wasn't so happy with his job. Both explained how you weren't doing a good enough job if you didn't die. Everyday many people died due to the harsh conditions and unproper equipment of the facilities. The times were very tough and many lives were lost. The Great Depression was a overwhelming time in American History.
A lot of people with a lot of different occupations all have different opinions on their jobs during the depression. Some of the people perferred their jobs, and some of them want a different job. All of the jobs had a different issue that the people either didn't like, or grew accostomed to. One of those people was an iron worker named Chris Thorsten. Thorsten was asked in an interview how dangerous the job was. His reply said, "you ain't an iron worker unless you got killed," meaning that Iron workers got hurt all of the time. He had gotten hurt once by breaking four ribs in his body which took four years for him to recover from. Another person was a packing house worker named Anna Novak. She did not like her job because the foreman at her workplace made her and the other workers bring them presents and bottles on the holidays. Jim Cole was another packing house worker who worked as a butcher for twenty years but was denied a higher position because he was african american. Another person, who worked at Eddies bar, disliked the location they lived in in New York. He disliked it because of how poor people had to live out in the cold along with all of the violence of the city. Lastly, one of the only people who actually liked their job was a mill worker named Alice Caudle. She said that she had worked it since he was ten, and that she was there when the technology changed from the spinner to the winding machines.
All of the workers had trouble at their jobs whether they were a maid or a stone cutter. One man named Mr Garavalli was a stone cutter during the great depression. He was at the risk of dieing by silica, but if he didn't get any silica then he wouldn't get any money. Other people such as the maid Mrs Haggerty wasn't even trusted by her houseowners. They had to test her by dropping $5 on the bed before she cleaned and see if she would return it or keep it. It was tough to hire someone you could trust without knowing them, but they would never hire a colored person because they thought they would just steal all their stuff and go ballistic. The other people got by on the little stuff such as a simple housewife and her friends would just knit stuff and bring them to the county fair to try and win a prize.
Part 3 B. Group Essay
The Great Depression was an extremely terrible time in American history. Thousands of people have done interviews explaining there lives and how they were affected due to this depression. Some of the interviewers include, Ed Calloway and Leonidas Cockrell. The lives of these people were all affected in different ways, but were all equally horrendous. The Great Depression made a lasting affect on every single individual.
Many interviews were done with various people during the Great Depression. They discussed events that happened during there lives. One interview in January 4, 1939 with Lawrence F. Evans, explained a fishing trip with his friend Ed Calloway. In his interview, you discover how not all the jobs during the depression were terrible. The job of Calloway was to catch terrapin. He had trained dogs help him catch many terrapin each day, selling them for 15 cents. In the end, Ed Calloway would make a decent profit for time period of the Great Depression. Lawrence F. Evans tells the tale of this trip because he wants to show that not all jobs of that time were tedious; some had jobs that they enjoyed and could even invite friends to join. A year before the interview with Evans, another interview took place with Leonidas Cockrell. Cockrell was a middle aged man at the time who worked as a hay famer. His job was much more laborous than the job of Ed Calloway. He exaplained how the crops he had sold for little money and there was little to sell. As times got worse and worse during the Great Depression, Cockrell had little money; he couldn't even buy things like food. In the end, much of his family died. Leonidas Cockrell and one son were the only survivers of the terrible event in history. The events in the Great Depression affected the colored and white people differently. All suffered in some way though, making this depression a very horrendous one.
There were many interviews taken during the Great Depression to show how bad life was. They talked about how tough their lives were and the events that when on in their life. One interview on December 17, 1938, with Sallie smith, was about how she had to work so hard everyday on her farm to get her crops good enough to sell and she barely got by doing that. She would even pay a boy 50 cents to drive her the normal place she goes to and an extra 50 cents to drive her anywhere else. She had a terrible time making a living no matter how hard she worked, but she worked enough to survive. Fortunately, about four or five months later on April 22, 1939. an interview took place in Macon County, Alabama with Jesse Owens, the world's fastest runner. In his interview, he talked about how he was raised with seven other brothers and sisters to share-cropper parents. But as he got older he got into running, and he got lucky to become so fast he got a chance to be in the Olympics. He ended winning, and became the world's fastest runner. As you can see so people work very hard and barely survive off it, and others are born with a gift to get them very far in life. All of the interviews, help people today understand the full affect of the Great Depression. The interviews of Leonidas Cockrell and Ed Calloway helped look into this period of time. Colored people and whites both suffered in differnent ways during the Great Depression.
The name of the person being interviewed is Crawford Ellis. He was given the place of auditor and now has hopes about becoming a Steamer.
He is a 24 year old man from Alabama. The interview is taking place in Dallas County, Alabama. The interviewer is Mildred Thrash. The person being interviewed is Jesse Owens. He is a famous runner. He is a 25 year old African American male. The interview is taking place in Cleveland, Ohio. The date of the interview is April 22, 1939. The interviewer is Rhussus L. Perry.
Dr K lived in Alabama just like Mr D.J Lewis. He was a physician and had a wife and four kids. He was in his early forties Red haired, stoutish and small piercing brown eyes. He was a new physician in the town, basically replacing the older, loved physician but was becoming weary. He worked for the town during the flu epidemic in 1918. He barely went home during that time besides to feed his horse and himself. He would take long trips about 15 miles on a carriage and take little naps during. Eventually his horse ran away or couldn't pull him anymore over time. He was a very religious man, a bible scholar, he and his patients prayed. Dr k. died of a stroke on March 29, 1939. Dr j Lewis built a home on a boat with his wife and they lived on it to dodge the expenses or taxes.
Part four
The sad town of Milltown, Alabama was always a disgrace;
equally divided, it has never been a very nice place;
the white race is given all privileges';
the blacks are given few.
Separate entrances of buildings are required;
black children are left out of events;
Racial terror sweeps through the town;
while the privileged could care less.
Segregation fills this place;
it is undoubtedly corrupted by it;
there is no sign of it stopping;
you would be surprised of the much needed change;
If change were ever to come, the time is far from near;
the whites' days remain with cheer;
the blacks' days remain with fear;
Should this day come, Milltown may be more happy;
but until then, the days remain cruel to the blacks.
Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film
Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film
Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film
I believe that these three interviews as a whole paint a vivid picture of the Great Depression. At a young age, Arthur Goodlett was forced out of school to help earn money for his family. Goodlett was forced to leave the town he was born in and was relocated to Century, Alabama. In Century, Arthur Goodlett heard of a part of Alabama booming with good quality jobs. This place was called Omaha, Alabama. Omaha was searching for Negroes willing to work in the industry. Arthur Goodlett got good pay working at a packing company there. In the end, the move to Omaha paid off, Arthur Goodlett owns a nice home, has a very good job, and has an educated son. Goodlett was one of very few that was lucky enough to be succesful during the Great Depression. In the Great Depression, poverty left people without food, homes, or hope. Goodlett was one of lucky to end up successful after this hard time. Money lost much of its worth during the Great Depression, and the interview of George Dodge is a good example of this. Dodge was a Yankee who lost his wife, so he was living all alone with his dog. His way of getting money was by taking any odd job when he had the chance too. Even though he was a mason and carpenter, times were so tough and money had lost so much of its value, that he had to take any random jobs whenever he could, so that he could get the money. Also, in the interview of Sallie Smith, She would have to work on her farm in Burksville, Alabama, everyday to get her crops good and the she would have drive to the market and sell them. She would do this everyday just to make a living and she barely got by because she had to pay $1.50 to drive her car to Montgomery and back and then an extra fifty cents for another person, which is hard for her to pay because a colored person drives it too, so she would have to pay more often. In the end she started making more money but she still barely got by. I read the interview of Jacob stein. Jacob Stein was accused of changing the ballots of the current election. The man running for mayor, promised people that he would have more jobs for people and fix the depression. During the election, a man with a pile of envelopes walked up to Jacob Stein and handed them to him. After, a cop pulled up and arrested Stein for tampering with the ballots.
Part 3 A. Group Essay
In every interview, people described how during the Great Depression there was little to complain about of you had a job and a little money. They were grateful for very little because they knew that someone else in America was suffering much worse. Both men and woman and colored and whites had a tough time getting jobs.
Many people hiring workers did not want to give the jobs to colored people. One woman, Mrs. Marie Haggerty, said that in that period of time, jobs were hard to get. Whites were very nervous to hire colored people to work in their homes because they thought colored people were dishonest and would steal from them. Haggerty said, " You got hired by your looks and even if you looked honest, they would test you out." Marie Haggerty had extra trouble too since she was a women. A butcher named Jim Cole didn't mind his job because he made his money, but he did want to work somewhere else, but he wasn't allowed to because he was black.
Many women didn't want to do the jobs that men did and wanted to remain housewives, but when times worsened they were forced to get jobs to support there families. Alice Caudle began at a very young age working in the mills. She started at the bottom of the business and gradually worked up. This particular job was very popular with women since it wasn't as laborous as many other jobs. Still some women were forced to do some of the 'dirty' jobs, such as preparing a hog. After waiting several hours for her husband to come home, Elizabeth E. Miller began to prepare a hog left dressed outside. When her husband arrived home he was found dumb struck at the strength his wife had. This interview showed that when times got hard the women were forced to step into where the men woud usually be. But, there was one housewife named Mrs. Mayme Reese, who had no job,but loved getting together with other women and quilting together, and then they would enter their own quilts in the fairs to see who'd win. She may have not had a real job but she loved that job.
Men still had some of the hardest jobs and some that they were very ashamed of. As times got worse, Bernice was forced to enter the business of rent party hostess. He used to live in Bermuda where this business was known as a disgrace. This shows that the people of this era were very desperate. Two workers, Chris Thorsten and Garavelli didn't get "easy" jobs like Bernice. They were iron workers and stone cutters. Thorsten said, "You ain't an Iron Worker unless you get killed... Men hurt on all jobs.". He was once crushed between a crane and broke his collar bone, all of his ribs, and three vertebrae, so he wasn't so happy with his job. Both explained how you weren't doing a good enough job if you didn't die. Everyday many people died due to the harsh conditions and unproper equipment of the facilities. The times were very tough and many lives were lost. The Great Depression was a overwhelming time in American History.
A lot of people with a lot of different occupations all have different opinions on their jobs during the depression. Some of the people perferred their jobs, and some of them want a different job. All of the jobs had a different issue that the people either didn't like, or grew accostomed to. One of those people was an iron worker named Chris Thorsten. Thorsten was asked in an interview how dangerous the job was. His reply said, "you ain't an iron worker unless you got killed," meaning that Iron workers got hurt all of the time. He had gotten hurt once by breaking four ribs in his body which took four years for him to recover from. Another person was a packing house worker named Anna Novak. She did not like her job because the foreman at her workplace made her and the other workers bring them presents and bottles on the holidays. Jim Cole was another packing house worker who worked as a butcher for twenty years but was denied a higher position because he was african american. Another person, who worked at Eddies bar, disliked the location they lived in in New York. He disliked it because of how poor people had to live out in the cold along with all of the violence of the city. Lastly, one of the only people who actually liked their job was a mill worker named Alice Caudle. She said that she had worked it since he was ten, and that she was there when the technology changed from the spinner to the winding machines.
All of the workers had trouble at their jobs whether they were a maid or a stone cutter. One man named Mr Garavalli was a stone cutter during the great depression. He was at the risk of dieing by silica, but if he didn't get any silica then he wouldn't get any money. Other people such as the maid Mrs Haggerty wasn't even trusted by her houseowners. They had to test her by dropping $5 on the bed before she cleaned and see if she would return it or keep it. It was tough to hire someone you could trust without knowing them, but they would never hire a colored person because they thought they would just steal all their stuff and go ballistic. The other people got by on the little stuff such as a simple housewife and her friends would just knit stuff and bring them to the county fair to try and win a prize.
Part 3 B. Group Essay
The Great Depression was an extremely terrible time in American history. Thousands of people have done interviews explaining there lives and how they were affected due to this depression. Some of the interviewers include, Ed Calloway and Leonidas Cockrell. The lives of these people were all affected in different ways, but were all equally horrendous. The Great Depression made a lasting affect on every single individual.
Many interviews were done with various people during the Great Depression. They discussed events that happened during there lives. One interview in January 4, 1939 with Lawrence F. Evans, explained a fishing trip with his friend Ed Calloway. In his interview, you discover how not all the jobs during the depression were terrible. The job of Calloway was to catch terrapin. He had trained dogs help him catch many terrapin each day, selling them for 15 cents. In the end, Ed Calloway would make a decent profit for time period of the Great Depression. Lawrence F. Evans tells the tale of this trip because he wants to show that not all jobs of that time were tedious; some had jobs that they enjoyed and could even invite friends to join. A year before the interview with Evans, another interview took place with Leonidas Cockrell. Cockrell was a middle aged man at the time who worked as a hay famer. His job was much more laborous than the job of Ed Calloway. He exaplained how the crops he had sold for little money and there was little to sell. As times got worse and worse during the Great Depression, Cockrell had little money; he couldn't even buy things like food. In the end, much of his family died. Leonidas Cockrell and one son were the only survivers of the terrible event in history. The events in the Great Depression affected the colored and white people differently. All suffered in some way though, making this depression a very horrendous one.
There were many interviews taken during the Great Depression to show how bad life was. They talked about how tough their lives were and the events that when on in their life. One interview on December 17, 1938, with Sallie smith, was about how she had to work so hard everyday on her farm to get her crops good enough to sell and she barely got by doing that. She would even pay a boy 50 cents to drive her the normal place she goes to and an extra 50 cents to drive her anywhere else. She had a terrible time making a living no matter how hard she worked, but she worked enough to survive. Fortunately, about four or five months later on April 22, 1939. an interview took place in Macon County, Alabama with Jesse Owens, the world's fastest runner. In his interview, he talked about how he was raised with seven other brothers and sisters to share-cropper parents. But as he got older he got into running, and he got lucky to become so fast he got a chance to be in the Olympics. He ended winning, and became the world's fastest runner. As you can see so people work very hard and barely survive off it, and others are born with a gift to get them very far in life.
All of the interviews, help people today understand the full affect of the Great Depression. The interviews of Leonidas Cockrell and Ed Calloway helped look into this period of time. Colored people and whites both suffered in differnent ways during the Great Depression.
The name of the person being interviewed is Crawford Ellis. He was given the place of auditor and now has hopes about becoming a Steamer.
He is a 24 year old man from Alabama. The interview is taking place in Dallas County, Alabama. The interviewer is Mildred Thrash. The person being interviewed is Jesse Owens. He is a famous runner. He is a 25 year old African American male. The interview is taking place in Cleveland, Ohio. The date of the interview is April 22, 1939. The interviewer is Rhussus L. Perry.
Dr K lived in Alabama just like Mr D.J Lewis. He was a physician and had a wife and four kids. He was in his early forties Red haired, stoutish and small piercing brown eyes. He was a new physician in the town, basically replacing the older, loved physician but was becoming weary. He worked for the town during the flu epidemic in 1918. He barely went home during that time besides to feed his horse and himself. He would take long trips about 15 miles on a carriage and take little naps during. Eventually his horse ran away or couldn't pull him anymore over time. He was a very religious man, a bible scholar, he and his patients prayed. Dr k. died of a stroke on March 29, 1939. Dr j Lewis built a home on a boat with his wife and they lived on it to dodge the expenses or taxes.
Part four
The sad town of Milltown, Alabama was always a disgrace;
equally divided, it has never been a very nice place;
the white race is given all privileges';
the blacks are given few.
Separate entrances of buildings are required;
black children are left out of events;
Racial terror sweeps through the town;
while the privileged could care less.
Segregation fills this place;
it is undoubtedly corrupted by it;
there is no sign of it stopping;
you would be surprised of the much needed change;
If change were ever to come, the time is far from near;
the whites' days remain with cheer;
the blacks' days remain with fear;
Should this day come, Milltown may be more happy;
but until then, the days remain cruel to the blacks.
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